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An Anthropogenic Table of Elements provides a contemporary rethinking of Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of elements, bringing together "elemental" stories to reflect on everyday life in the Anthropocene.
Concise and engaging, this book provides stories of scale, toxicity, and temporality that extrapolate on ideas surrounding ethics, politics, and materiality that are fundamental to this contemporary moment. Examining elemental objects and forces, including carbon, mould, cheese, ice, and viruses, the contributors question what elemental forms are still waiting to emerge and what political possibilities of justice and environmental reparation they might usher into the world.
Bringing together anthropologists, historians, and media studies scholars, this book tests a range of possible ways to tabulate and narrate the elemental as a way to bring into view fresh discussion on material constitutions and, thereby, new ethical stances, responsibilities, and power relations. In doing so, An Anthropogenic Table of Elements demonstrates through elementality that even the smallest and humblest stories are capable of powerful effects and vast journeys across time and space.
Contents
Introduction
Timothy Neale, Courtney Addison, and Thao Phan
1. 1080
Courtney Addison
2. Carbon
Timothy Neale
3. Cement
Eli Elinoff
4. Cheese
Xenia Cherkaev, Heather Paxson, and Stefan Helmreich
5. Copper
Manuel Tironi
6. Ice
Alexis Rider
7. Kerosphere
Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and Zoe Todd
8. Lithium
Scott Wark
9. Mould
Alison Kenner and Sarah Stalcup
10. Mylar
Derek P. McCormack
11. Seeds
Xan Chacko
12. Sperm
Janelle Lamoreaux and Ayo Wahlberg
13. Strontium
Brad Bolman
14. Tectonics
Zeynep Oguz
15. Testosterone
J.R. Latham and Kate Seear
16. Virus
Frederic Keck
17. Elements-to-Come
Thao Phan
Contributors
Index
